“Vaccination remains the solution to avoid serious illness, entering the ICU ward, hospitalisation and especially death”, Raed Arafat, Head of the Emergency Department (DCU) told a news conference at Victoria Palace.

“We have seen that, unfortunately, none of the young people who have died in the last 24 hours have been vaccinated, and the percentage of those Most of those who die at the ICU are unvaccinated, a situation that could have been prevented if they had been vaccinated,” according to Arafat.

Today Romania recorded almost 20,000 new cases — the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic — and 39 deaths in the last 24 hours. Today there are 411 more patients in hospitals than on Wednesday, January 19; 547 corona patients are in intensive care.

Daily vaccinations have averaged around only 16,000 this week.